Follow along as our AFL live blog takes in all the major moments from the Saturday matches in round seven starting with Collingwood taking on the Gold Coast.

Souths officials confirmed on Saturday night their halfback will meet with a surgeon on Monday.

A 45-year-old woman has died after a bus and a car collided in Sydney’s west.

Nathan Buckley’s future remains a major point of debate but he and the club maintain there will not be a call until later in the season as the Magpies fell to a 1-6 win-loss record.

Manly enforcer Marty Taupau was unwilling to talk after the game as the Panthers defended Matt Burton’s tackle on the Sea Eagles enforcer.

The governing body has asked the AOC if its athletes can have their vaccines delayed due to fears the second shot could affect performances on the cusp of Olympic trials.

The case has raised questions about the sport’s response to medical emergencies.

The guard had already had a vaccination. He and his housemates have been moved into quarantine, and WA Premier Mark McGowan said at this stage Perth would not go back into lockdown.

Everything you need to know to pick a winner on a seven-race card at Bathurst.

The Melbourne Vixens celebrated their 2020 title and then opened their new season with a loss to an impressive West Coast Fever.

Exoboom motored down the centre of the track to take Saturday’s Hawkesbury Guineas.

The Recording Academy has been fighting allegations of corruption and rigging.

The best moment in Penrith’s 28-16 win came with just two minutes remaining when Liam Martin leapt high and somehow kept the ball in play for a try.

Winless and with a host of key players injured, the Giants were reeling after three rounds but a month later they are back in the hunt.

The country’s pandemic response has been marred by insufficient data concerning more than 350 scientists.

Officials announced the massive trucking operation, saying the effort was aimed at ensuring “the highest level of survival for the young salmon on their hazardous journey”.

The Gold Coast Suns posted just their fourth win at the MCG and have ensured the blowtorch remains on Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley and the struggling Magpies.

The Australian Medical Association and leading infectious diseases experts say opportunities to improve or expand Australia’s hotel quarantine system have been missed.

At least 18 people, including two healthcare workers, were killed in a fire at a COVID-19 hospital in the western Indian state of Gujarat late on Friday night.

“This has taken us by surprise and left us utterly bereft,” Prince Mangosutho Buthelezi said.

For this Australian citizen, there were multiple hurdles to getting back from India.

Without mentioning China by name, the new Pentagon chief said diplomacy should be used to prevent conflict.

Two men embark on an unlikely business venture in the suspenseful First Cow, but we know the good times can’t last.

Ask what drew the award-winning actor to one of his many roles and he’ll give you a ‘perfectly honest’ answer.

Dr Simon Longstaff, who led the probe of CA’s operations in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal, also expressed disappointment with a delay in implementing a key recommendation.

The great majority of NRL teams are propped up by millions of dollars a year by the NRL, so I just can’t see the value of a second team in New Zealand.

A British soccer-instigated boycott of the world’s biggest social media platforms by professional athletes, sports teams, governing bodies and broadcasters got underway in response to continued online racist abuse.

Carlton coach David Teague will benefit from having former Bomber coach and Eagles legend John Worsfold in his corner but the Blues will need to all be on the same page.

French artist Pascal Convert’s sculpture, a copy of the remains of the emperor’s horse Marengo, is due to be displayed in the hallowed dome of the Invalides.

Tyson Gamble’s brand of tough, abrasive football, combined with a booming voice, might be just what the doctor ordered as Brisbane try to save their NRL season.

On Sunday, great friends Briony Akle and Megan Anderson will come up against each other as opponents for the first time as they step into their respective head coach roles.

The gelding just wasn’t interested in Scone, but that performance has saved Banju’s lungs for a better effort in the central tablelands.

James McGrath has triumphed over Amanda Stoker for the top spot on the Queensland LNP Senate ticket in a hard-fought battle of party factions.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

Nicola Stevens was a teenager when she found out her mum had early onset dementia.

Matildas skipper and superstar Sam Kerr hopes to achieve some big ambitions with club and country, starting with a big week ahead.

A security company involved in Melbourne’s deadly hotel quarantine outbreak is suing the Victorian government, claiming they were not paid almost $10 million for guarding a dozen hotels during the pandemic.

Before working on Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel, French engineers Nicolas Caille and David Coulet helped build the massive steel shield round the wrecked nuclear plant.

Clad in their warmest clothes and with facemasks on, Aswath Chavittupara and Prasitha Sasidharan stood outside the hospitals from midnight on Friday holding signs calling for justice for Aishwarya. 

“Disneyland is like my happiest place, to be totally honest,” said a guest. The major Californian economic engine drew 19 million people a year pre-pandemic.

Two new exposure sites at Brisbane International airport have been identified as the Queensland check-in app becomes mandatory from May 1 for all hospitality businesses across the state.

32,043 fans packed into the Gabba to see the Lions, in pursuit of a three-peat, take on the top-placed Power. The two contenders could hardly be separated. The Lions led by a point at both the first and main break, before Port claimed a five-point ad...

Europe ended up in a pandemic-induced double-dip recession, the US economy grew 1.6 per cent. The difference? Cash mostly.

When Stewart Loewe goaled five minutes into the second quarter, the Saints lead ballooned out to 63 points. Game over? Not quite. The Hawks kicked the last three goals of the quarter, before piling on another 10 in the third term. Then, a three-goal-...

If the Morrison government wants to support equal pay for women start with improving the wages of undervalued jobs in the child care sector.

Showers and storms will linger throughout the long weekend until an easing trend is expected to be seen on Tuesday.

Indigenous Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt says Australia would be better as a nation if its children learned two or three languages.

An Australian coming-of-age trip across the Nullarbor in the 1980s sowed the seeds of a new career for this gutsy administration worker ejected from her job.

Customers thought they were using a legitimate seller of contracts for difference. Instead, they got a boiler room where a bell was rung to celebrate every time someone was sucked in.

The government will make it a crime, punishable by a maximum $66,000 fine and/or five years’ jail, if anyone travels home from India.